It is odd how they timed this with major legislation promoting domestic production of EV and this horrible CHIPS act to mask their intent. Than you had the Taiwan faux visit to be in open defiance of China. This is about you violating some law, not your trade policy on China.
He is right about one thing, corruption which makes setting up a business 10x harder or damn near impossible in the U.S. They went after the m@### in the same way when Nixon visited China due to their ties to organized labor. Unions are staunchly for fair trade with other countries and use their political muscle to get things done.